Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Flock Safety
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $171,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Understand team workflows and processes
- Meet with key stakeholders
- Understand Aviation products and service architecture
- Ability to perform in role with minimal or no guidance
- Participate in API and service architecture reviews
- Contribute to platform architecture improvements and code quality initiatives
- Support platform improvements and scalability projects
- Lead a database and service performance optimization effort
- Act as a technical lead for a mid-sized Go microservice project
Requirements
- 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience (querying, schema design, and performance tuning)
- 3+ years of database architecture experience
- 8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 4+ years using Go in production
- Building scalable, high-performance Go microservices
- Proficiency with message queues, pub/sub systems, or event-driven architectures
- Deep knowledge of Go internals and concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, sync primitives)
- Expertise in profiling and optimizing Go applications for latency and throughput
- Understanding of Go memory management, profiling, and performance optimization.
- Designing REST and gRPC APIs consumed by multiple clients and services
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Benefits
- Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
- Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
- Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
- Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
- Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.
- Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support.
- Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
- ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
- WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
- Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
- Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PostgreSQLdatabase architecturebackend developmentGomicroservicesmessage queuesevent-driven architectureREST APIsgRPC APIsperformance optimization
Soft Skills
communicationproblem-solvinganalytical skillsleadershipcollaboration